INFORMATION MANAGEMENT FOR MICROARRAY EXPERIMENTAL DATA

摘要

Today, proficiency in generating microarray data is fast overcoming the capacity for storing and analysing this data. Although there are some existing microarray databases, they have their own storage structure and implementation. In addition, those proposed databases might use the different terminologies to describe the same domain or concepts. As a result, these could lead to a limitation in the sharing of data with other laboratories and the combination of other experimental results. Here, we proposed the integrated information management architecture for microarray experimental data. Unlike the past work on database interoperation in the bioinformatics community, this database design will take into account the important issues in microarray data integration including a lack of a common shared microarray-ontology and having dynamic data representation of the microarray data sources.